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stouffville saturday oct 22 2005 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville b 44 pages1 including gst t x h 3 homeowners dealing with skyrocketing heating costs opinion 6 total home 18 sports 23 classified 26 always room to improve markham schools tops in eqao tests by caroline grech staff writer students at william berzcy public school in unionville are among york regions top scorers pri the most recent round of eqao tests but there is still room ato improve their principal says x the focus isnt so much that we need to get 100 per cent but its how much continued improvement can we accom plish principal clayton la louche explained were not fig uredriven york region district school board grade 3 arid 6 test scorespage 24 while hesitating to focus on the scores he attributed the schools success to a variety of factors including a program that allows schools to share their teaching strategies with one another we were really able to benefit from learning from l other schools mr la louche said berzcys scores in all subjects in grade 3 and 6 tests were more than 30 per cent better than the provincial averages despite hav ing more than 40 per cent of the see parents page 10 toronto committee fighting 700m illi on sewage system extension by joan ransberry staff writer while york region politicians are fighting mad over a toronto com mittee decision to fight the 700- million big pipe sewage system some residents are calling it a victo ry for ordinary residents it is a big win for the environ ment said dave probert one of about 60 york residents who con vinced the toronto finance com mittee to call on the provincial and federal governments to halt the project this just proves that york region has not done its home work insisting the project is depleting local water supply and threatening wildlife mr probert is demanding the province hold a complete envi ronmental assessment but region al chairperson bill fisch said work will not stop well go to court if necessary mr fisch said toronto has no right to decide what we are build ing this project is about 70 per cent complete we need to finish it now environmental commissioner gord miller convinced the commit tee thursday that york didnt prop erly assess the environmental impact of sewer construction which drained wells in markham andwhitchurchstouffville future phases cut through the oak ridges moraine in richmond hill when the environmental com missioner for the entire province comes here and says that york region evaded the law they see to page 12 staff photosjoerd witteveen dont fence me in girls from markham and stouffville head out on in a race during a york region district catholic school board area cross country meet thursday at bruces mill conservation area on stouffville road hot tubs authorized dealership seaway pools hot tubs call 2948030 27 hgbd wwwmarkhammazdaca tmmani cmntry mmhylifr mmm